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Palestinian Authority officials said the kidnappers of Alan Johnston, the BBC correspondent in Gaza who was abducted March 12, have made specific but unacceptable demands, the first time there has been formal contact. Azzam al-Ahmed, the deputy prime...

Britain's biggest journalists union, the 40,000-member National Union of Journalists, has voted in favor of a boycott of Israeli goods, citing what it called Israel's ''military adventures.'' The measure, approved by a vote of 66 to 54 at the union's...